This is an analysis of The Lament Of The Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling.
O woe is me for the merry life
I led beyond the Bar,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX XcdX Xcec XdXd fXfc gcgX bhbh icic XbhX jeje cdcX kckc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110110101 110101 1010111101 111100 1110011110 111101 111000101 110001 01110101 011101 1100101110 111101 11110101 111101 110010101 111101 01010101 010101 01010111 110111 11010101 011111 11110101 1100101 110011101 010011 01111111 111101 110011101 110101 11111111 110101 11110100 11000101 11111101 110110 01111111 1111010 01111111 0111010 11111111 111101 10111100101 10100101 101101101 1111101 1111100111 111001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, lie, war
Anaphora
the, and
